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Interview with Willie Posey in 1980, Part I

by: Michele Wallace, Willie Posey

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

Topics: Willie Posey, Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold, African American Fashion, African American art, Harlem, Palatka, Jacksonville, Florida

Item Size: 57.8M

Michele Wallace interviews Willie Posey, her grandmother, in 1980 at her appartment in Harlem. Topics are her early life in Palatka, Florida, the death of her father, her move to Harlem, her relationship to her mother and siblings. She is 77 at the time of the interview and she resides in Harlem at the Lenox Terrace. A former fashion designer, she also collaborated extensively on the art of her daughter Faith RInggold